POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY, Iowa -- An adult and a child from Des Moines died after being struck by a vehicle while standing outside of their car on Interstate 880 in Pottawattamie County over the weekend.

On Sunday at around 7:03 p.m. emergency crews responded to a report of a crash involving a Chevrolet pickup truck and two pedestrians. According to an Iowa State Patrol crash report, the pickup truck was traveling eastbound on I-880 around the 8.6-mile marker and swerved out of the roadway when it came up on another vehicle that was stopped in the middle of the road after crashing into a deer. The crash report states that the pickup truck swerved away from the vehicle and struck two people before coming to rest in the median.

The pedestrians, identified as 27-year-old Til Baswa and a two-yea

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